Search results matching tags 'PASS' and 'Infrastructure'http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=PASS,Infrastructure&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'PASS' and 'Infrastructure'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)Let's Talk Licensing and Virtualization for SQL Serverhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2012/12/13/let-s-talk-licensing-and-virtualization-for-sql-server.aspxThu, 13 Dec 2012 19:23:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:46647KKline<p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">I have two new articles up on&nbsp;<a title="Database Trends &amp; Applications magazine" href="http://www.dbta.com/">Database Trends &amp; Applications magazine</a>. &nbsp;I'd love to get your thoughts and feedback!</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"><a href="http://www.dbta.com/Articles/Columns/SQL-Server-Drill-Down/Welcome-to-the-Weird-Wild-World-of-Licensing-86588.aspx"><br></a></p><h2 style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">Welcome to the Weird, Wild World of SQL Server Licensing</h2><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">Not long in the past, SQL Server licensing was an easy and straightforward process. You used to take one of a few paths to get your SQL Server licenses. The first and easiest path was to buy your SQL Server license with your hardware. Want to buy a HP Proliant DL380 for a SQL Server application? Why not get your SQL Server Enterprise Edition license with it at the same time? Just pay the hardware vendor for the whole stack, from the bare metal all the way through to the Microsoft OS and SQL Server....</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"><a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_rptArticles_ctl01_IssueName" href="http://www.dbta.com/Newsletters/DBTA-E-Edition">DBTA E-Edition</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_rptArticles_ctl01_ArticleIssue" href="http://www.dbta.com/Newsletters/DBTA-E-Edition/3644-December-2012.htm">December 2012 Issue</a></p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"><a href="http://www.dbta.com/Articles/Columns/SQL-Server-Drill-Down/Virtualization-Conquers-the-Database-86186.aspx"><br></a></p><h2 style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">Virtualization Conquers the Database</h2><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">I was privileged to deliver a session entitled Managing SQL Server in a Virtual World at the PASS Summit 2012, the largest annual conference for Microsoft SQL Server. It was a packed house, literally at standing-room-only capacity. I delivered the session with my friend David Klee and we were swarmed by attendees after the session wrapped up. With almost 600 people in the room, we conducted one of those informal polls that speakers like to do along the lines of "Raise your hands if …" and the informal findings were very telling. Probably around 90% of the attendees used VMware and SQL Server in some capacity and at least 60% used it in production environments. Another important fact was that only 10% of the attendees were actually able to get information on the performance of the actual VMs themselves. Most had to get all of their information and support from the VM / System administration staff....</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"><a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_rptArticles_ctl03_IssueName" href="http://www.dbta.com/Newsletters/DBTA-E-Edition">DBTA E-Edition</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_ctl00_ctl00_rptArticles_ctl03_ArticleIssue" href="http://www.dbta.com/Newsletters/DBTA-E-Edition/3600-November-E-Edition.htm">November E-Edition Issue</a></p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/kekline">Follow me on Twitter!</a></p>Conquer Your Fear of Virtualization with a Free Day of Training at PASS!http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2012/10/18/conquer-your-fear-of-virtualization-with-a-free-day-of-training-at-pass.aspxThu, 18 Oct 2012 16:50:00 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:45668KKline<p style="line-height:19px;">Click this link to register: <a href="http://www.houseofbrick.com/education/sqlserverbootcamp/Registration">http://www.houseofbrick.com/education/sqlserverbootcamp/Registration</a>. </p>
<p style="line-height:19px;"><a href="http://www.houseofbrick.com/education/sqlserverbootcamp/Registration"><img style="border:0px currentColor;width:922px;height:622px;float:right;cursor:default;" class="alignright size-large wp-image-2097" title="HOB Virtualization" alt="HOB Virtualization" src="http://kevinekline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HOB-Virtualization-1024x691.png" width="922" height="622"></a></p>
<p style="line-height:19px;">Presented by my buddy, David Klee at House of Brick, one of the nations top VMWare consultancies specializing in Oracle and SQL Server deployments.</p>
<p style="line-height:19px;">David has a great write-up of this boot camp at&nbsp;<a title="David Klee's Blog" href="http://www.davidklee.net/2012/10/01/virtualizing-your-business-critical-sql-servers-free-boot-camp-by-house-of-brick/">http://www.davidklee.net/2012/10/01/virtualizing-your-business-critical-sql-servers-free-boot-camp-by-house-of-brick/</a>.</p>
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